Go Kit, Dependency Management, Microservices

Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about Go kit, microservices, Go in the enterprise, dependency management, and writing Go packages.

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Show Notes:

The panel shared that time they all used Go Channels incorrectly
Go kit is a distributed programming toolkit for building microservices in large organizations. We solve common problems in distributed systems, so you can focus on your business logic.
Go best practices, six years in
Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit
Peter mentioned So you want to write a package manager which is a DEEP article, estimated at 50 minutes to read

Free Software Friday

Scott — zetcd lets you serve zookeeper with etcd
Erik — Pelikan is Twitter’s unified cache backend
Peter — The Platinum Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

Go source code looks particularly good when displayed in Go fonts.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!